Senior Scientist, SickKids’ Research Institute and the Centre for Global Child Health
Melanie is a Senior Scientist in the SickKids’ Research Institute and the Centre for Global Child Health. She leads professional and resource development in dissemination and implementation science and practice (knowledge translation) within the KT Program of the SickKids’ Learning Institute. At the University of Toronto, she is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, and in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health. She is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Huddersfield; a member of the Governing Board Director for Children’s Mental Health Ontario; an Associate Editor for the journal, Evidence & Policy, and on the Editorial Board for the journal, Implementation Research and Practice. She is an internationally recognized expert in dissemination and implementation science and has a program of health services research that spans many areas of health to improve the implementation of evidence into practice and to broaden the reach of evidence to support decision making, policy, knowledge, awareness, health, and well-being.
